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A New Tongue, a New Baby and a New Approach to Treatment
Morgan Evans thought she’d have to choose between her unborn baby and treating her aggressive tongue cancer. Her team at Michigan Medicine thought otherwise.
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Should You Do Self Breast Exams?
Once considered vital for early breast cancer detection, the breast self-examination is now optional for most women. A breast cancer expert explains what’s changed.
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Feeling Stressed or Down in a World with COVID? Try This Writing Tool
A new tool uses expressive writing to help cancer patients, others cope with life challenges during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Cancer Isn’t One Size Fits All: Nashawn’s Story
A patient’s genetic makeup and journey with leukemia highlights the need for more gene sequencing in minority children.
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Making Strides Against Childhood Brain Cancers
A roundup of several recent Michigan Medicine discoveries that are shedding new light on pediatric brain cancers and helping to improve treatment options.
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‘The Immense Burden of Cancer is Not Shouldered Equally’
The disproportionate effect COVID-19 has had on Black Americans may worsen existing racial and ethnic disparities in cancer care, and make health equity harder to achieve.
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Why You Should Continue Routine Cancer Screenings During COVID-19
The benefits outweigh the risks in locations with lower rates of the virus, experts say.
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Prostate Cancer Treatment Might Help Some Glioblastoma Patients
Anti-androgen therapy showed positive results in cell lines and animal models.
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Cancer vs. COVID: When a Pandemic Upended Cancer Care
A Rogel Cancer Center team created a guide to help providers navigate difficult conversations due to the coronavirus.
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Study Suggests New Approach to Improve Radiation Therapy Resistance in Glioblastoma
Cancer treatment research for glioblastoma enters new phase with FDA-approved drug trial that aims to improve the effect of radiation therapy on this aggressive brain cancer.
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New Clues in Resistance to Mainstay Drug for Patients with Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Multi-institution analysis identifies a new chromosomal abnormality linked to enzalutamide resistance.
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Experts Say More People Should Get Lung Cancer Screenings, and Sooner
A Rogel Cancer Center lung doctor discusses recommendations that annual screenings start at age 50 for current and former smokers with 20 “pack years”.
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Study Suggests Method to Starve Pancreatic Cancer Cells
Rather than attacking cancer cells directly, new cell-model research probes weaknesses in pancreatic cancer’s interactions with other cells to obtain nutrients needed for tumor growth.
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This MicroRNA Might Help Detect, Treat Ovarian Cancer
New ovarian cancer research shows microRNA biomarker miR-181a could hold the key to earlier detection and treatment of the disease.
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How A Bone Marrow Recipient Found His Perfect Match
When Dan Wagner’s leukemia came back, he was devastated. Now he’s celebrating five years’ cancer-free, thanks to his donor and new life-long friend.
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